Anyone want to start a coding site ? ( Carmack engines ) Thread

hey all, I was just curious if anyone here is interested in starting up a coding website ? No for crappy half life ( ), but for quake / wolf / doom . I think mainly concentrating on quake 3 / wolf atm, then progressing to doom 3 when it appears.

I wouldent mind building a site and handing it over to a team, either --- im not one for content, I just love doing the backend stuff.

The site would be pretty much totaly custom, to maintain speed, consistancy, and to keep it solid. I'd write it in php / sql, in which I have good knowledge.

In my opinion, there're too many sites like that already. (Although there aren't any really good ones... PlanetWhatever sites are nice, except for the horrible forum communities and WaitPlanet downloads...) I suggest making a less general web site; maybe ask mod teams if they'd like a site done. Because with big sites you're not simply going to make a site and hand it over to a team, you're going to have to update and keep it running for years

yah, that would be even better, but I doubt many mod teams out there need websites... do YOU ?

Every mod needs a web site!!!

i think its a good idea

xconspirisist wrote: yah, that would be even better, but I doubt many mod teams out there need websites... do YOU ?

You could design websites for mods :/

Well, im fine with doing that, as long as the mod isnt some kind of drop out. Anyone need a website ? ( php / sql hosting prefured )

yes, you should always make sure they have a significint amount about the mod, altho thats hard to do with HL2 mods, since all you can have is concept art and ideas :/

el bumpo.

Ill do sites for mods on newell or carmack engines.

What on earth is a Newell engine?

made up maybe?

lol - a newell engine is, imo, an engine created by gabe newell - eg : half life, or half life 2.

as is a carmack engine : doom, quake, wolf. etc.

I'll "maybe" do a site like that, in fact I had one in the works

Newell is a networking system, I thought.

xconspirisist wrote: lol - a newell engine is, imo, an engine created by gabe newell - eg : half life, or half life 2.

No, Newell licensed Carmack's Quake engine.

40oz, you're thinking of Novell

half-life is an enhanced version of quake1 engine and half-life2 is based on quake3 engine:P

lol, if you're really desperate for webwork it would be even nicer to have a high-tech website for our OutCast project, rather than pure HTML pages and a stolen lycos forum.

There are plenty of sites out there for the Carmack and Novell engines. Yikes, Quake 2 coding sites are out there in their multitudes. Also, Carmack engines run on almost pure C languages, so there ain't much of a problem for coders in that respect.

Still, I actually sat there and wrote a tutorial only the other day on our message boards about adding new weapons to Quake 3 (with 'The 75 weapons of OutCast' I couldn't be bothered to do it myself!). Perhaps a new site with a far more detailed or extensive database would be in order?

There is barly a line of quake 1 code left in half life - valve butcherd that engine, bastards...

and half life 2, is built off the half life 1 engine, god, its not built off the quake 3 engine ( unfortunatly ).

novell is a networking managment protocall, newell is a fat bastard that butchers half life engines

Don't forget Valve's false claims, like "created from scratch".

lmao ! did they actualy say that ? -- "created from scratch" ?